[Fatty acid composition of liver lipids in chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and fatty liver].

Fatty acid spectrum of liver tissue lipids was studied by means of gas-liquid chromatography in 58 bioptic samples from patients with chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and fatty hepatosis. A statistically significant decrease in content of linoleic, arachidonic and docosahexaenic acids as well as an increase in oleic, palmitoleic and myristic acids were found. Under conditions of the diseases studied fatty acid spectrum of liver tissue lipids altered. A decrease in degree of lipid desaturation was especially distinct in liver tissue cirrhosis.